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Definition of laboring : 1. of Labor
2. Suffering pain or grief.
3. That labors; performing labor; esp., performing coarse, heavy work, not requiring skill also, set apart for labor; as, laboring days.

Synonyms:

drudging, busy, labouring

employing, discharging, exerting, expending, wielding, applying

endeavoring, conducting, perpetrating, operating, officiating, appearing, exercising, acting, doing, executing, transacting, moving, functioning, behaving, working, performing, reacting, comporting

laborious, toiling

Usage examples:

• Indeed she cared nothing about it; and leaving her to pursue the passion as she liked, poor Euphemia, according to her custom when laboring under this whimsical malady, addicted herself to solitude. - "Thaddeus of Warsaw", Jane Porter.
• It appeared that we had been laboring under a fatal misunderstanding regarding the general subject of navigation. - "The River and I", John G. Neihardt.
• And such was the opinion of the Inspector himself, as he remarked the extreme excitement under which the Englishman was laboring. - "The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow", Anna Katharine Green.